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How to Do Push Up to Side Plank

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the push up to side plank.

How to do it

1. Get into pushup position on the toes with your hands just outside of shoulder width.
2. Perform a pushup by allowing the elbows to flex. As you descend, keep your body straight.
3. Do one pushup and as you come up, shift your weight on the left side of the body, twist to the side while bringing the right arm up towards the ceiling in a side plank.
4. Lower the arm back to the floor for another pushup and then twist to the other side.
5. Repeat the series, alternating each side, for 10 or more reps.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

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Gear for this exercise

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.